Definitions for HAIL
heɪlha·il

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hailnoun

   precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

2. hailnoun

   many objects thrown forcefully through the air

   "a hail of pebbles"; "a hail of bullets"

3. hailverb

   enthusiastic greeting

4. acclaim, hail, heraldverb

   praise vociferously

   "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"

5. hail, comeverb

   be a native of

   "She hails from Kalamazoo"

6. hailverb

   call for

   "hail a cab"

7. hail, heraldverb

   greet enthusiastically or joyfully

8. hailverb

   precipitate as small ice particles

   "It hailed for an hour"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hailinterj.

   A term of salutation now used only in poetry; health be to you.

   Etymology: hœl, health, Saxon: hail, therefore, is the same as salve of the Latins, or ὑγιαίνε of the Greeks, health be to you.

   Hail, hail, brave friend!
   Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
   As thou did’st leave it. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Her sick head is bound about with clouds:
   It does not look as it would have a hail
   Or health wish’d in it, as on other morns. Ben Jonson.

   The angel hail
   Bestow’d, the holy salutation us’d
   Long after to blest Mary, second Eve. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

   Farewel, happy fields,
   Where joy for ever dwells! hail horrors! hail
   Infernal world! and thou profoundest hell
   Receive thy new possessor! John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i.

   All hail, he cry’d, thy country’s grace and love;
   Once first of men below, now first of birds above. Dryd.

   Hail to the sun! from whose returning light
   The chearful soldier’s arms new lustre take,
   To deck the pomp of battle. Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane.

2. HAILnoun

   1.Drops of rain frozen in their falling. John Locke

   Etymology: hagel, Saxon.

   As thick as hail
   Came post on post. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

3. To Hailverb

   To salute; to call to.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   A galley well appointed, with a long boat, drawing near unto the shore, was hailed by a Turk, accompanied with a troop of horsemen. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

   Thrice call upon my name, thrice beat your breast,
   And hail me thrice to everlasting rest. Dryden.

4. To Hailverb

   To pour down hail.

   My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation when it shall hail, coming down on the forest. Is. xxxii. 19.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hail

   Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets generally fall in cold weather, while hail growth is greatly inhibited during low surface temperatures.Unlike other forms of water ice precipitation, such as graupel (which is made of rime ice), ice pellets (which are smaller and translucent), and snow (which consists of tiny, delicately crystalline flakes or needles), hailstones usually measure between 5 mm (0.2 in) and 15 cm (6 in) in diameter. The METAR reporting code for hail 5 mm (0.20 in) or greater is GR, while smaller hailstones and graupel are coded GS. Hail is possible within most thunderstorms (as it is produced by cumulonimbus), as well as within 2 nmi (3.7 km) of the parent storm. Hail formation requires environments of strong, upward motion of air within the parent thunderstorm (similar to tornadoes) and lowered heights of the freezing level. In the mid-latitudes, hail forms near the interiors of continents, while, in the tropics, it tends to be confined to high elevations. There are methods available to detect hail-producing thunderstorms using weather satellites and weather radar imagery. Hailstones generally fall at higher speeds as they grow in size, though complicating factors such as melting, friction with air, wind, and interaction with rain and other hailstones can slow their descent through Earth's atmosphere. Severe weather warnings are issued for hail when the stones reach a damaging size, as it can cause serious damage to human-made structures, and, most commonly, farmers' crops.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hail

   Hail is a form of solid precipitation that occurs during thunderstorms when updrafts carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere, causing them to freeze into ice pellets. Hailstones typically have a round shape and can range in size from small pebbles to large golf balls or even larger.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hailnoun

   small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones

2. Hailverb

   to pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors

3. Hailverb

   to pour forcibly down, as hail

4. Hailadjective

   healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling)

5. Hailverb

   to call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address

6. Hailverb

   to name; to designate; to call

7. Hailverb

   to declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York

8. Hailverb

   to report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from

9. Hailverb

   an exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting

10. Hailnoun

    a wish of health; a salutation; a loud call

11. Etymology: [See Hail, v. t.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hail

   Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Unlike graupel, which is made of rime, and ice pellets, which are smaller and translucent, hailstones – on Earth – consist mostly of water ice and measure between 5 and 200 millimetres in diameter. The METAR reporting code for hail 5 mm or greater is GR, while smaller hailstones and graupel are coded GS. Hail is possible within most thunderstorms as it is produced by cumulonimbi, and within 2 nautical miles of the parent storm. Hail formation requires environments of strong, upward motion of air with the parent thunderstorm and lowered heights of the freezing level. In the mid-latitudes, hail forms near the interiors of continents, while in the tropics, it tends to be confined to high elevations. There are methods available to detect hail-producing thunderstorms using weather satellites and weather radar imagery. Hailstones generally fall at higher speeds as they grow in size, though complicating factors such as melting, friction with air, wind, and interaction with rain and other hailstones can slow their descent through Earth's atmosphere. Severe weather warnings are issued for hail when the stones reach a damaging size, as it can cause serious damage to human-made structures and, most commonly, farmers' crops.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hail

   hāl, v.t. to greet: to call to, at a distance: to address one passing.—n. a call: greeting.—interj. or imper. (lit.) may you be in health.—n. Hail′-fell′ow, a familiar friend.—adj. on hearty and intimate terms—'Hail, fellow! well met,' often used as a kind of descriptive adjective.—Hail from, to come from. [Ice. heill, health.]

2. Hail

   hāl, n. frozen rain or particles of ice falling from the clouds.—v.i. to rain hail.—v.t. to pour down in rapid succession.—ns. Hail′shot, small shot which scatters like hail; Hail′stone, a single stone or ball of hail; Hail′-storm, a storm accompanied with hail.—adj. Hail′y. [A.S. hagol; Ger. hagel.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hail

   To accost; to call; to salute. A sentinel hails any one approaching his post with, “Who comes there?”

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Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hail

   An exclamation of greeting derived from the Anglo-Saxon hæl, “health.” The Scandinavian heill expressed the same sentiment. See “Wassail.”

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HAIL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hail is ranked #364 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hail surname appeared 86,240 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 29 would have the surname Hail.
   
   73.1% or 63,076 total occurrences were White.
   21.6% or 18,628 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 1,958 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2% or 1,802 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.5% or 457 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 319 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Applaud
   • Be
   • Call
   • Object
   • Precipitate
   • Precipitation

How to pronounce HAIL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say HAIL in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of HAIL in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of HAIL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of HAIL in a Sentence

1. Haley Brink:

   It was very loud. The hail was pelting the house, hitting the windows, we were just hoping that the windows were going to hold up and wouldn't break, at one point it was so loud that you couldn't hear a person ten feet away from you talking without yelling.

2. Brenda Haymon:

   All I can say is that I wish he had gone down in a hail of 100 bullets, i wish it had gone down like that instead of him shooting himself.

3. Sherri McDonald:

   The hail came out of nowhere so it was kind of shocking.

4. The National Weather Service:

   The area of greatest concern is from southeast Colorado to portions of Texas, the primary threat with these storms will be very large hail, but damaging winds and even a few tornadoes can not be ruled out.

5. Asher Weinberger:

   We were on our respective couches, in isolation, mutually depressed, asking each other,' What do we do with this last $ 10,000 ?' we ultimately decided we're going to take a Hail Mary pass.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=HAIL
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=HAIL
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/HAIL
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=HAIL
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=HAIL
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=HAIL
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html